One of the leaders behind Spanish Altera Orbe label, Ran Kirlian, has released during April 2013 two long awaited collaborative projects. One of them is "Cosmos Vol. I", the first installment of his space journeying with fellow German voyager Jaja. Jaja is constantly exploring space regions since 2011 through her numerous free download albums released via Cyan Music label (Jaja is a co-owner of this free audio netlabel) while Ran Kirlian has ventured deeply into these realms on his acclaimed "Continuum" CDr album (June 2012, Altera Orbe).

Both creators dedicate this voyage into celestial domains to the magnificence of the Cosmos as well as to famous American astronomer, educator, author and science popularizer, Carl Sagan. I hope Ran Kirlian & Jaja are working on the next volume, because this first chapter left me breathlessly fascinated. As far I know this is a limited edition (not sure if 25 or 50 copies), so if you are one of those deep space connoisseurs, don't miss "Cosmos Vol. I", 80 minutes of pure stargazing magic awaits here!!!

i do understand that you want to support artist having an importance on your RM board. Being a bit political incorrect concerning "community actings", i think it´s a bit problematic and clashing with your position here as an administrator, who - in my opinion - should act much more unbiased (like APK and Mike). Just posting/responding (recently) on posts concerning artists related to RM leaves for me a strange smell. I would´t mentioning all of this, if i had seen you active on other (non RM related) reviews or post but unfortunately that wasn´t the case so far.

Tomas, I post about music I love - on rM, on twitter, on facebook... sometimes it's people who post on rM or are on my label - often times it's not.

I really like this album. Steve Brand is my friend - re: the Over-soul post. I also posted about LOST with Immersion recently - which had nothing to do with music at all. I also posted to the gear thread although my advice wasn't really wanted there - and that's ok.

I've posted how much I like your stuff now and then.

I really shouldn't feel the need to defend myself, but I've been here since Mike opened the form well over a decade ago. I go in phases of posting a lot here and posting a little here - depending on my time.

Chris - up until about 2 weeks ago all links went to alteraorbe.com - and all searches will pull those. It literally just switched and Ran and Landru are working on getting their ".com" back. A bit of a mess during a server migration.